According to police in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, Hwang, 37, who was arrested last week after fleeing abroad is currently being questioned. The recidivist is suspected of having used methamphetamine again with two acquaintances in southern Seoul in 2023.
Hwang reportedly fled to Thailand shortly after learning that she was the target of a police investigation in December 2023 and is believed to have lived in Cambodia after entering the country illegally with an invalid passport.
She recently indicated that she would turn herself in, prompting officers to travel to Phnom Penh on Christmas Eve to arrest her, but she is reportedly denying all the allegations.
However, some paparazzi media have raised suspicions that she was involved in drug distribution or sex trafficking while on the run.
Hwang, who previously drew public attention for her relationship with singer-turned-actor Park Yoo-chun, was convicted of using methamphetamine three times between May and September 2015 at her home in Seoul and elsewhere and received a suspended prison sentence in 2019. The following year, she was again convicted on drug-related charges and received a harsher sentence of 20 months in prison.
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